Did you note the contemporary Sydney reference (they were very prescient) :
“You can’t build the flats on the Kingsway Subway!”
"Can’t build!!??"
“But I’ve already had the dropsy from-m-m-m, err, why not?”
Some things never change…
Tony
> On 28 Nov 2021, at 8:42 am, Mark Skinner emessk@...> wrote:
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> I prefer this as being more relevant to Trams Down Under.
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> https://youtu.be/zW8NNSqBjFU https://youtu.be/zW8NNSqBjFU
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> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, 9:56 pm Tony Galloway, arg@... mailto:arg@aapt.net.au> wrote:
> It’s like that Goon Show trope where a character like Neddy Seagoon says, “the gang of navvies was hard at work”.
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> Followed by silence, then a single “tink”.
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> Then more silence before another character speaks.
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> Tony
>
>> On 27 Nov 2021, at 7:28 pm, 'bblunt3473@yahoo.com mailto:bblunt3473@yahoo.com' via TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@... mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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>> The George St line is closed for "essential maintenance" this weekend. So I decided to take a walk from CQ up to Central to see what they were doing.
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>> Three guys were at the terminus doing some adjustments to the points.
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>> South of Town Hall, workmen were busy with the new paving works, and installing even more ugly poles at the intersections; these seem to be for new pedestrian lights (why do they need more lights when pedestrians ignore them anyway?).
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>> At Hay St, a group was engaged with welding at the H crossing.
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>> As compensation for the inconvenience, the Opal readers were switched off along both lines.
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>> Brian, on the L1.5 today.
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